Movies: Sergey Makovetskiy

Feeling taunted by the success of an inordinately fortunate nobleman, an officer decides to challenge him to a duel....

Three friends are in the entrance of a luxury home in the heart of the city. They are young, full of strength and energy, they have the talent, skill and thirst for life and ... - well, they have all but one. But money......

1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich completes the orchestration, but in 1948 is advised to suppress ...

A comedy about a New Year Eve celebration in one very funny hospital....

A forgotten affair leads to a series of crazy events....

The action takes place during the German occupation of Ukraine in 1919. The main characters are folklore characters - the brave soldier Semyon Kotko and the beautiful maiden Sofya....

Summer of 1943, the current of the front. In one of the fierce battles, a T-34 tank is hit. The tank commander Sasha Menshov is seriously wounded. After treatment in the hospital - again the front. On the eve of the big battle there was an order not ...

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-193...

Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, Kama Ginkas’ astounding reimagining highlights and builds off of the Chekhovian tension between the beauty of life and the tragedy of how it is lived. The story tells the the tale of philosophy student Andre...

About the love of a living man and a dead woman, in the truest sense. Victoria is not a corpse, but just a ghost. Before becoming a ghost, she was Stanislav's wife, and they went through the horrors of married life together. To fall in love with his ...

"Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian society. The story's protagonist, Makarov, embodies this struggle as he becomes more mechanical and l...

A provincial Russian city in the era of the Khrushchev thaw. Against the background of historical changes, the fates of the heroes unfold, and among them the young Violetta. Before becoming an actress, the heroine goes through a difficult path of tri...

After a demobilization Vladimir starts working in a little porcelain shop as a repairer - but soon gets involved in criminal activity - so he desperately needs help from army friends....

His motto was laconic: "I promised - stay still." This is how Alexei Balabanov lived, raised his sons, was friends, and so filmed. A legendary director and an extraordinary person who made both "festival" and "mass" films with equal ease. He was a gr...

After the murder of Krymov, Alika was sentenced to prison. In prison, she falls into the hands of a fragment of the novel "Anna Karenina". By pure chance, a director comes to the colony to select the heroines for the film of the same name, and Alika ...

Documentary film with comments by Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Alexey Balabanov, Sergey Astakhov, Sergey Selyanov about the shooting of the famous film "Brother 2"....

The film begins in the 1980s Soviet Union. Two best friends, Orlov and Muravyev, are serving at the Black Sea Navy Base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Both fall in love with one beautiful girl Nelly, and their friendship suffers a first blow. Because she pic...

England, London, May 1899. The death of the old lord Robert Andestend collects under one roof, in a family estate, his three nephews: bachelor bachelors who do not grieve too much for the deceased. Nephews learn that after the death of their rich unc...

St. Petersburg, early 20th century. The handsome and secretive Johann specializes in shooting erotic pictures depicting the floggings of bare-bottomed women. With the help of his assistants, the photographic creations gradually penetrate the peaceful...

he fascinating adventures of two mischievous boys Misha Kozlov and Kolya Sinitsyn....